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Mount Everest (Mt. Everest, mountains, Himalayas).
Is Mount Everest Really the Tallest Mountain in the World?
The view of Mount Everest from Tibet. Mountain on the crest of the Great Himalayas of southern Asia that lies on the border between Nepal and the Tibet.
Cheating Death on Everest
Bear Hat Mountain above Hidden Lake on a crest of the Continental Divide in Glacier National Park, Montana
Exploring 7 of Earth’s Great Mountain Ranges
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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”
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Causes of the Great Depression
Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)
Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture
Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.
Why Is Ireland Two Countries?
King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)
9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes
illustration of the walking titanosaurus, Patagotitan mayorum
Titanosaurs: 8 of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs
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Also Known As Robert Edwin Hall
Born January 14, 1961 • Christchurch • New Zealand
Died May 11, 1996 (aged 35) • Mount Everest • Nepal

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Edmund Hillary
Edmund Hillary
New Zealand explorer
George Mallory
George Mallory
British explorer and mountaineer
Reinhold Messner.
Reinhold Messner
Italian explorer
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
Austrian mountain climber
Oh Eun-Sun
South Korean mountain climber
Apa Sherpa
Apa Sherpa
Nepali mountaineer
Tenzing Norgay
Tenzing Norgay
Nepali-Indian mountaineer
Mantis James Van Sweringen
American businessman
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Japanese businessman
Tsutsumi Yasujiro
Japanese politician
August Thyssen
German industrialist
Levi Strauss
American entrepreneur
Tsutsumi Yoshiaki
Japanese businessman
John Zachary DeLorean
American automobile manufacturer and entrepreneur
Vicente Martínez Ybor
Spanish-born merchant
Jack the Rapper
American disc jockey and publisher
Steve Ross
American entrepreneur
Oris Paxton Van Sweringen
American businesman
Heinrich Harrer
explorer and writer
Ethan Allen Hitchcock
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